Fish scaler



Aug.y 27, 1929. A. J. WAL- LACE FISH SCALER Filed Deo. 51, 1927 A/BERT J IAM/Mes,

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Patented Aug. 27, 1929.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE..

ALBERT J. WALLACE, OF .ALGONAC`, MICHIGAN.

FISH SCALER.

Application filed December 31, 1927. Serial No. 243,929.

The purpose of my invention is to provide by tongues being punched from the sheet 4.5

a convenient and effective means of' holdmetal and then bending said teeth downing fish while they are being scaled and a wardly, the teeth of the several rows being device for quickly and effectively removing' all of uniform length. The side edges of' the scales from the fish, and one which is the teeth converge in the direction of the strong and durable and simple in construC- blunt ends whereby a tapered or wedgef tion. shaped tooth is produced. It will be noted prefer to carry out my invention in subthat the teeth in rows 9 and l() contain a stantially the manner shown and hereinafter like number-of teeth while the teeth in row 10 fully described, and as more particularly ll are less than the two rows of teeth 9 pointed out in the claim, reference being and 10; while the teeth in row 9 are located 55 had to the accompanying drawings forming in line with the teeth of row 10, the teeth Y a part of this specification in whichin row 1l being in line with the spaces be- Figure 1 is a perspective view of the fish tween the teeth of rows 9 and 10.

The object of arranging the teeth as heresealer;

Fig. 2 is a cross section View on line 2 2 tofore described and the downwardly eX- 60 of Fig. l; y tending sides carrying teeth and the head Fig. 3 is a bottom view. 4 converging to a point 8, is to facilitate the The fish sealer is constructed of a single removal of the scales. The teeth in row piece of sheet metal and comprises a head '9 loosen or tear up the scales and the teeth 4' armed with teeth, and provided with a in row l0 completes the removal of the 65 handle 5, the latter being cup-shaped to fit scales previously loosened by action of the the hand while being gripped to scale the other two rows of teeth. fish. The rear end of said handle has an What I claim is:

aperture 6 to enable the device to be con- A sh scaler comprising an elongated veniently hung on a nail or other suitable toothed plate with an integrally formed han- 70 support when not in use. That part of the dle stamped from a sheet of metal, the hanscaler which forms the head 4 is flat with dle being bent upwardly so as to lie in a. edges bent downward, said edges being plane sufficiently high above the plane in notched to form teeth 'l'. The fish sealer terwhich the teeth are disposed as to permit minates in a pointed end 8 which enables the hand of' the operator to grasp the handle the scales to be removed from and around without coming in contact with the fish bethe gills of the fish, places usually not acing scaled, said tooth plate having teeth cessible to a blunt nosed scraper, the head extending the entire distance along both being also downwardly odset with respect sides and across the end and also having to the handle so that when the device is teeth arranged in spaced parallel rows in 80 in use the hand grasping the handle will the body of the plate and disposed in lonnot come in contact with the fish which is gitudinal planes in line with the spaces bebeing scaled. tween the teeth at the forward end of' the 40 The head 4 is provided with a plurality toothed plate, the toothed plate being so con-- of spaced parallel rows of teeth, said rows structed that all the teeth will come into S5 being formed transversely of the head. These contact with the fish being scaled.

rows of teeth are indicated at 9, 10 and 1l. respectively. The rows of teeth are formed ALBERT J. VALLACE. 

